ram • i • fi • ca • tion n. 1. The act of branching out or dividing into branches. 2. A branch or other subordinate part extending from a main body. 3. An arrangement of branches or branching parts. syn. divergence, outgrowth, consequence, development, complication, technicality, subtlety. TheScreamOnline has branched out significantly since its June 2001 premier issue, embracing such subjects as the Chelyabinsk-40 plutonium site in Russia; the images of U.N. photographer John Isaac; the wrenching Holocaust poetry of John Guzlowski; Jim Perry’s discovery of slave traders in his family; a generous array of art featuring the talents of painters, illustrators, sculptors, and one digital artist; and topics so strange and bizarre that they could come from nowhere else in the animal kingdom but Homo Sapiens: a house of cheese, hats of meat, Naked News, and the unfortunate meeting of a bird and a 97-mile-per-hour baseball (click on the Past Issues button at the upper left to see all articles). And speaking of branches, trees are the subject of a beautiful pictorial by renowned photographer Sean Kernan (see below). Enjoy!
ART
Thirteen new images
by TheScreamOnline alumnus Kenn
Brown, including his amazing 8.5-foot DNA illustration.
The 1960s music of the Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, and the Grateful Dead
(to name a few) introduced a new attitude in Art, exemplified in the iconic
Fillmore Posters which advertised
Bill Graham’s world-renowned Rock venue.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Sean Kernan’s
commercial client list is a “who’s
who” of the corporate world, yet he has found the time to develop an
artistic style all his own. View images from his Among
Trees series.
The TowerCam at the Mt.
Wilson Observatory outside of Los Angeles, California, takes a photograph
every four minutes of every day and uploads the image to the website for anyone
to see. Thirteen stunning moments are captured in this remarkable photo essay.
More entries from our popular Photo
Gallery.
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MUSIC
Combine animation and music and you get Animusic—Wayne
Lytle’s stunning series of music videos in which the most amazing array
of instruments you have ever seen perform as if they were... alive.
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FICTION
The famous quotes
of Muhammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Minister of
Misinformation.
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NONFICTION
“Tomfoolery,”
Sonja
Mongar’s narrative
of how her family copes with the murder of a brother, is a story of disruption
and fragmentation, and does not offer a resolution. She has created a unique
hypertext environment that presents alternative conventions of narrative space,
structure, movement, and time.
“Confessions of a Shanty Irishman” is a chronicle of Michael Corrigan’s life as a member of a fiercely proud, “priest-ridden race” of hard-drinking, fighting, and argumentative San Francisco Irish-Americans for whom “alcohol was a sacrament” and religion and politics were never far away.
So, why are breasts masculine? Find out in “Gender Politics” by Gail Armstrong.
Reams of treaties can’t avert wars, but a tiny piece of sticky paper can start one, in “Stamped With Blood,” an essay from 1938.
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EDITORIAL
The editor blames
the “The Fattening of America”
on the penchant for al fresco dining en auto.
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EPIPHANIES
In “The
Nature of My Epiphanies” Dana Lise Shavin
looks at her life’s
path as a healer, and realizes the true power of Art.
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COMMENTARY
Rob
Woutat studies the “Sex Life of the Gingko”
and analyzes his own sin quotient in “The
Annals of Sin.”
Shortly
after World War II, representatives from forty-six nations met in San Francisco
to negotiate the terms of a legally binding charter upon which to base the
United Nations. December 10, 1998, marked the 50th anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights which was created by Eleanor Roosevelt and
the Commission on Human Rights, negotiated under the auspices of the United
Nations, and adopted (without dissent) by the UN’s General Assembly.
It is well worth the read.
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POETRY
Works by David
Feela and Helen Degen Cohen.
Also, view the Poet Index for access to all poets
in every issue.
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QUOTATIONS
A compendium of
some of our favorite quips (from Woody Allen
to Henny Youngman). This feature will grow with each new issue.
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THE STRANGE & BIZARRE
Bizarre
album covers that you have to see to believe. Now, just who were the rocket
scientists in those marketing departments?
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Bookshelf.
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